P.O.V. Aadi
Waking on a yellow sofa to the smell of food wafting in the room, I get up and grab my plant sat on the small table to my left. Heading in the direction of the smell I see a familiar set of glass doors, the kitchen area was here.
Heading in I see Lucien cooking in the kitchen with the same apron on, the pointy ear lady is sat on the right side chair closest to the kitchen beside her was the short man named Gurlet, the human man is sat on the left seat closest to the kitchen with the human female sitting next to him. However the other two chairs at the table surprised him, the only other person than Lucien here was me, meaning it was sat there for me.
Slowly approaching under the eyes of the 4 sitting at the table Gurlet speaks up, "Why tike you sure do like to nap a lot don't ya, Ha HA almost any time I see ya you are sleeping or about to fall asleep."
I knew I had been sleeping a lot, but it was the first time since the dungeons I could just lay down and not feel like one wrong move would be my death.
Not responding to short man I approach the seat on the back end of the table with it's back facing the door, sitting down I sit my potted plant down on the table. Looking at Lucien in the kitchen I wait quietly for food to come.
Apparently the short man doesn't know how to stay quiet as he keeps talking even with no one responding, "ya know tike I'm a high B-ranker at only 38 that is far better than most, most men my age can only hit low C-ranking. I attended the Enhanced Being Academy at the age of fifteen, meaning I awakened at fifteen. I'm a cream of the crop, able to achieve High F-rank at fifteen as soon as I awakened meant my mental energy was larger than average I tell ye", water hit him in the face from the pitcher in the center.
"JAMES YOU BOINGING DONGO WHAT THE HELL YE BE DOING THAT FOR YA ASAHOLE." James the human man apparently does not take kindly to this false accusation.
"I am a fire manipulator I can't manipulate water as it goes directly against my element, the only one able to manipulate water here in any capacity is Lucien and he is a ice manipulator meaning it would not be a water ball but an ice spike hitting you if it was him." James responds.
"Who ye else can think it be if not one of us?" Gurlet asks. Silence resonates at the table as they contemplate which one was capable of it, I raise my hand a second later and watch as they all turned to look at me.
Bringing my hand back down to rest in front of me I make a small water ball in my hand, their faces all change to stunned disbelief except for the pointy ear woman.
"tike how old are ye?" the short man asks.
"11" I respond.
Silence was all that remained in the kitchen until Lucien came with food and a reprimand not to use energy at the table, "Young one we all agreed after one to many fights no energy at the table, since you are eating here with us you have to oblige by this agreement to." Sitting the food down in front of me he stops anyone from eating by raising his hand.
"Since we will be having someone new with us for the foreseeable future let everyone tell their names and position." Lucien says, "I'll start, my name is Lucien Null and I'm the second attacker and back up tank I use a spear and Ice energy." Lucien then turns to the pointy ear woman who speaks after him.
"My name is Maylen Tar and I'm main attacker I use a arming sword along with wind energy." Poi- I mean Maylen then turns to the short man.
"My name Gurlet tike and I'm main defense I use a war battle hammer and earth energy." Short man says, although I have known his name for a while I find him to annoying so I'll just keeping calling him short man.
Short man then turned to the human man, "My name is James Wenbeth I'm main backline attacker and secondary distractor I use a battle staff and am a fire energy user as I said earlier."
Without prompt the human girl spoke, "I'm Ella Washwen and I'm back line main distractor and secondary backline attacker, I use a short bow and my element is sound." I tilt my head at that, I have never heard of a sound element.
But Lucien helps clear it up somewhat, "she would actually be a vibration manipulator but she thinks it sounds dirty." Why would that sound dirty? I looked at Lucien questionably but get no reply. Now everyone was staring at me, I tilt my head in question. "Barmy we be waiting for your information tike."
Getting a smile from Lucien in agreement I speak, "Aadi, dagger, water, fire, earth." Silence followed my words as they process exactly what I meant.
Lucien looks at me and asks, "you are able to manipulate water, fire, and earth is what you are saying?" Nodding my head I look to see their reactions, all looked astonished at the fact I could manipulate three elements.
Lucien chuckles and says, "Don't just sit there staring at the young one, start eating or someone may eat what you want first."
Everyone starts digging in after that rolls, chicken, a salad and mashed potatoes are all consumed by the end of the hour. Lucien gets up and gets another food item out of the kitchen I have never seen before, it is brown and smells like chocolate.
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Ella immediately dives for a slice but Lucien grabs her hand before she can, he then removes a slice and puts it on my plate, taking a bite it practically melts in my mouth in the following seconds I'm scrapping my plate clean. Hearing a chuckle I look up to see Lucien grinning from ear to ear as he motions around his mouth, confused I tilts my head.
Apparently that was the breaking point as Lucien broke down in laughter, a second later he got up grabbed the towel and wiped my face with it.
Showing the mess on the towel I feel my face flush red, others at the table also started to laugh shuffling my hair Lucien smiles at me and says, "stay as long as you need."
Tears of joy poured silently down my face as I let out a true smile for the first time since I was trapped in that Dungeon.
After dinner the group returned to the room I had woke up in earlier and began to just talk about their previous escapades, apparently they all attended school together and so had known each other since they were around the ages of fifteen and eighteen. Meaning they were all between the ages of 35 and 38, Lucien was apparently the second oldest at just barely 38, while Ella was the youngest at just barely 35.
They met in a study club meant for well standing and talented students to help lower standing and worse off students in order to increase unity or something, but the higher standing were mostly just slurred at by those at lower standings causing them to team up and beat up the lower standing ones until they listened.
Listening to them talk I couldn't help but laugh and smile as the time passed drowsiness set in and the need to sleep became prevalent, spotting his sleepiness Lucien excused them both to go bathe and sleep.
Lucien took me to the blue bathroom and showed me how to adjust the water settings, tap red to increase temperature and the white one to decrease temperature, clear one to turn it off. Setting a new button up shirt on the counter and my plant beside the door he heads out to shower himself.
30 minutes and hot shower later I'm laying on my bed with my plant on the shelf slowly beginning to doze off when the door opened.
"I figured you didn't bother drying your hair." A voice says as a towel falls on my head, Lucien begins to dry my hair off for me. Once he was done he ran his hands through my hair and sat beside me till sleep claimed me.
P.O.V. Lucien
Putting the boy to bed I got up and returned down stairs the mood now more somber than when the boy was down here, they had clearly been waiting for me to return if their same positions as earlier is any indications.
Looking at them I decide to tell them all that I knew of the current situation, they had most likely been wanting to know since we picked him up 2 days ago.
"The boy does not originate from this world but another one." Seeing the surprise that lit up their faces I know they understand the magnitude of this as well as I. My family may be a small one but that isn't true for all of them, Gurlet in particular is the second born from a ducal family the second heir.
While Maylen is the child of the current elf emperor she is a bastard half elf who did not inherit the royal family ability and is no doubt her mothers daughter, but elf children half or not are rare if she ever truly needed help her elder half brother would no doubt give it as she is his only sibling estrange as they are. Her being a fertile half blood helps increase her standing.
James is the youngest child of the previous human emperor and the favored brother of the current one. Although Ella is the only one born from a commoner family her elder sister also talented like her married the current head general of the combined armies, all of them had one connection or another. Even he a half blood of the avian beast kin has good standing as his mother ran away from the arranged marriage the emperor her father had planned and struck from inheritance due to impotency common in half blood children could get some backing if truly pushed.
All of them had enough political intel and knowledge to know both the danger from his world if they are powerful or the danger to his world if weak. It would be a who can concur who first bloodbath, full out war.
Continuing on, "his worlds dungeons aren't like ours they suck in anyone and anything in the surrounding area, close when the most powerful monster is cleared and close one hour after successfully completed, anyone still in the dungeon when it closes is stuck there until it reconnects to another place, and that most likely only happens when the Dungeon mob numbers reach max level for whatever area they are in." Silence follows this statement as they understand the unsaid circumstance of how the boy got in that dungeon.
"The boy uses a extremely painful but also powerful cultivation and they most likely use this type of cultivation because unlike here where impurities will disappear on their own with enough time, they probably have little to no way to deal with impurities so this painful but effective method was invented so as to lower the amount of people who need the treatment for impurities."
Although I don't add details of the cultivation it is understandable how bad the impurity situation must be to do such a thing.
Dismissing the meeting we head to our rooms to sleep, tomorrow I'll take the boy to get clothes and a hair cut while getting all the books and supplies he'll need to get as much knowledge of our world as quickly as possible and to begin studying proper energy manipulation and fighting style that matches him.
Smiling as I think of how quickly the boy will get frustrated at the different clothes he will be forced to wear I fall asleep.
P.O.V Aadi
Waking to once more being shaken I glare at Lucien, hearing him chuckle as he hefts me over his shoulder I knew it had no effect but to amuse him. Lucien put him on the ground again and handed him a bundle of folded clothes that were to large still, I put them on wash my face brush my teeth and hair before applying hygiene product.
After getting ready Lucien once more chucks me on his shoulder and carries me down, putting up with it enough I complain, "I, able, to, walk." He chuckles and comments, "when you can say that sentence properly and with no problem then I'll think of stopping."
He put me down in the kitchen and made a bowl of cereal with milk for me, after eating he grabbed my hand and led me out front were the carriage now stood. "We will be getting you some proper clothes that fit, a haircut and a few books and practice weapons, resistance is futile you understand little one." Pouting slightly I nod in understanding not agreement but Lucien took it that way anyway.
The next four hours were the most traumatizing of my life, pulled one side to the other, trying on every piece of clothes that could fit me in the store. I am now thankful for the government given clothes as he didn't need to go through this to get them. The haircut was a quick simple one getting the hair from my shoulders to 3 inches thick at top and one inches on the sides keeping the hair out of my eyes once more.
The book store was interesting as there were many different subjects and tools I had never seen before, while the weapon shop we bought one of each training basic weapon.
Returning home I was told some exciting news, "As of tomorrow you will join us with morning practice, can't keep sleeping the whole day away anymore." With a grin Lucien informed that I would begin physical training with them.